Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same sale the top price of £11,700 was given for a twelve-piece Ring 's Pattern set of table cutlery in an oak canteen which was made in Sheffield in 1931 and £950 for a George IV coffee pot of panelled baluster form decorated with acanthus leaf motifs made in London in 1825 , probably by Joseph Angell . |
| 2 | Marietta of Patras was a woman of birth , honoured as a dead monarch 's permanent mistress . |
| 3 | The professional officers , particularly when organised through a chief officers ' team , as advocated by the Bains Committee , and led by a chief executive officer can provide a formidable obstacle to councillors intent on policy innovation that goes against conventional assumptions . |
| 4 | In consequence , therefore , any one of these three procedures will be considered as a normal evening 's work . |
| 5 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 6 | Sometimes he felt like a middle-aged man trapped inside a young man 's body . |
| 7 | While GRIST courses can help to raise awareness of particular issues , the benefits of providing a programme of in-house courses addressed to a particular school 's needs may have much more relevance for the staff . |
| 8 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 9 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 10 | The place was owned by an old ship 's captain . |
| 11 | Be prepared for a nostalgic evening 's music featuring many of the old favourites such as , ‘ Nobody 's Child ’ and ‘ Roamin' in the Gloamin' . ’ |
| 12 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 13 | The concession served to fend off a ban that might have been imposed under a private member 's Bill . |
| 14 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 15 | Issues considered by the Committee are : the Institute 's disciplinary procedures with particular reference to whether or not non-members should become involved ; a draft Practice Note ‘ Business and other names connected with a Chartered Architect 's Practice ’ , which it approved and which has been considered by the Practice Committee ; and details of the text of the Code , in respect of which changes are suggested . |
| 16 | You should n't , if you 've already turned into a full-time clergyman 's wife . |
| 17 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 18 | The following excerpt is written in a Mass Observationer 's shorthand , which accounts for the bumpy grammar : |
| 19 | And in that time , the three-bedroomed house has grown from a busy couple 's base to a family home for them and their two-year-old daughter Emily . |
| 20 | The Committee says that the draft Directive has missed the opportunity to lay down ‘ a simple , well-defined framework for the protection of personal data and the regulation of personal data processing , applied on a consistent basis ' throughout the EC . |
| 21 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |
| 22 | Programmes of study are tailored to an individual candidate 's requirements and may comprise either research training and a thesis or portfolio of projects ; or a programme of research training , assignments and a dissertation . |
| 23 | Programmes are tailored to an individual student 's requirements and includes training in research skills ( see page 9 ) . |
| 24 | If we recall , the main advocate of scientific management , F.W. Taylor , argued that pay should be related to an individual worker 's output . |
| 25 | It also affects loans secured on an older person 's ( 65 years or over ) home which are used to purchase a life annuity . |
| 26 | Helena Kennedy , a barrister , said the law should be changed in rape cases to compel the defence to ‘ reveal their hand ’ , in relation to any attack made on an alleged victim 's character . |
| 27 | RICE wines made from a recipe given last year were presented at an annual members ' judging evening of the Alresford and District Wine Circle at the John Pearson Hall last week . |
| 28 | To see this platform threatened by a mere Smiths ' power game , hardly proved good PR for the band and a degree of bad feeling began to boil away in their home city . |
| 29 | Rokeya looked like a figure in a strangely exposed photograph , silhouetted , caught , highly defined by the light , like a prisoner running from a concentration camp , cruelly and horribly revealed by a roof-top guard 's spotlight . |
| 30 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |